Pluspunten
Some great colleagues to work with, and a few individuals who uphold culture and human connection Up until recently very flexible working Good graduate programmes A fun public sector team
Minpunten
Company has turned 180 - gone from being an inclusive, generous, open-minded and flexible employer to one that takes away benefit by benefit and calls it "being mean and lean". Learning and development fund was scrapped ages ago, now private healthcare has been scrapped with 4 days notice leaving employee thousands out of pocket or unable to receive the vital healthcare they need cause it's no longer covered and the 300 quid offered by the company don't make a dent in most of these cases. Office days have increased from 1 to 2 and will probably go up to 3 soon because senior leadership thinks more office work will fix things. When challenged on the (financial) impact of this on employees, the company's favorite return argument is that "they didn't give anyone a pay cut when everyone went remote in the pandemic". I didn't join before the pandemic therefore the argument is utterly pointless to me. Myself and many others are being forced to expend additional time and money while at the same time essentially receiving paycuts all for the sake of being in a location where they don't actually work with others in person. I know that the poor people who ask for help or reasonable adjustments or exceptions, are being treated in a generic and corporate way and essentially their requests are denied with a few temporary exceptions. I don't know that much about disability but last time I checked, disabilities and chronic/long-term issues don't just go away because a policy gets changed, but I suppose senior leadership just expect people to find a magical cure to their conditions. All these changes have pushed many people to leave the business recently, we've lost some great colleagues and their absence is sorely felt.